Quote Originally Posted by PArcher View Post
I feel like Francel is going to become our enemy. His anger at us is understandable; we took his best friend and protector from him. He likely resents us for the ease we won him over, and the (potential) relationship we had with him.
What I found odd is that the story suggested that the relationship between Haurchefant and Francel was just between a knight and his lord; there was a distinct lack of romantic undertones (as is suggested by the early MSQ). But I get the feeling Francel wanted more, and is jealous the WoL (potentially) got that.
I didn't really get a jealousy vibe from this at all tbh.

The part about him breaking the dead flowers (he leaves flowers at Haurchefant's memorial EVERY DAY) I felt was more like ... the anger stage of grief?

But there's loads of romantic undertones to this, remembering that the narrator of the story is Francel himself. I mean come on:

A silver-haired boy twice his age was swinging a wooden sword with reckless abandon, his bare chest glistening with sweat in the moonlight.
This reads like something straight out of a gay romance novel. Plus if you go and speak to Francel after doing the Vault he is ... really distraught. Like even more distraught than the people at Dragonhead iirc (who - if you didn't check them - CANNOT say their scripted "tell me about what you do here" lines because they can't bring themselves to say those things).

What I'm trying to say is that I'd really like for Square to stop beating around the bush and tell us if they were in a relationship ... perhaps we could get some stuff about that at the weekend during the lore thing?